The problem of Outland in Cataclysm

Borex brings up a question I’ve heard ever since Blizzard first announced they were going to tear up Old Azeroth in Cataclysm: what’s the deal with Outland? Up until now, continuity throughout the game has worked more or less the way it should: new content gets added on to the end of the game, [...]

The Guild season 3 episode 3 out now

After last week’s shocking breakup, it’s all up to Codex to put the pieces back together this week, as The Guild not only deals with the loss of one member, but tries to jump into a brand new expansion, even while some new wrinkles invade the guildies’ lives. This season is starting to get some [...]

Raid Rx: What’s a good raid healing makeup?

Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poobah of World of Matticus and a founder of No Stock UI, a WoW blog for all things UI, macro, and addon related. What’s the ideal raid healing team for 25-man raid groups?
As your guild starts [...]

15 Minutes of Fame: Clint Hackleman of Myndflame machinima

15 Minutes of Fame is WoW.com’s look at World of Warcraft players of all shapes and sizes — from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off to players you’d like to hear more about.
The subject of this week’s 15 Minutes of Fame has actually carved [...]

WoW Moviewatch: Worgen of Stormwind

One of my joys about this job is that I get to watch machinima and WoW movies alongside my beloved Draenei fiancee. It’s part of our daily routine, and it’s a great thing to do together. It definitely helps supplement my machinima knowledge, though, because she’s much more a music geek than I am.
When I [...]

MMO Roundup: Last week on Massively

Sometimes you’d like to know that there are other MMOs out there, right? Our sister site Massively can provide you with everything you need to know about all those other shiny MMOs! Check out this roundup of the latest news from the wider MMO world.

PAX 2009: Dark mysteries of The Secret WorldSo, you may have [...]

Around Azeroth: The dark phoenix

Dustfire of <In Vino Veritas> of Zuluhed is moving house in a few weeks, which is rarely a pleasant experience. (My own move-out in August featured three days of hundred-degree weather and a highly aggressive paper wasp that had not been evicted prior to our arrival on the new apartment’s porch.) Her new phoenix mount, [...]

Pandaren Monk pet has moves

MMO Champion has datamined up some video of the new Pandaren Monk vanity pet that’s been floating around, and as you can see above, it’s pretty darned awesome. Just like the Grunty the Murloc pet, this one comes with some fun animations, and they look terrific. Blizzard has been pretty coy about getting the Pandaren [...]

Breakfast Topic: The one-of-every-class club

A friend of mine just dinged 80 again the other day, and it put him into a community that we joked about: the “one-of-every-class” club. Like a few of our readers (including William B, who emailed us a while back), he now has ten 80s, one of every single class in the game. It’s not [...]

Tuesday Morning Post: Philosophy Edition

I don’t know what was in the air this week, but it seemed like everyone was doing a little philosophizing around the WoW webosphere. Chief among those, of course, was Ghostcrawler, who waxed eloquent about community reactions to balancing and the reasons for killing off 2v2 arena. We got into too, with Adam wondering if [...]